news bulletin – answers

Big laser, bigger implications

correct the sentences

1. The world’s largest laser lives in Los Angeles. in San Francisco
2. It has changed the way the world produces energy. it will, scientists hope it will
3. The 192 lasers will produce enough energy to equal the sun. temperatures and pressure to equal the sun
4. This laser will be part of the mythology of the sun. the sun is part of human mythology not the laser
5. We need to make the sun our friend. there is no compulsion he asks ‘can we make the sun our friend?’
6. The facility can create a clean and limitless source of energy. this is their goal, not the reality now
7. Ignition occurs where the input energy exceeds the energy created by fusion. the opposite: energy created by fusion must exceed the input energy
8. The facility will produce games around energy and economic problems. the game changer is used to describe the science being developed here which will solve the energy and economic problems
9. Nuclear fission is a completely clean form of energy. no, there is waste to be disposed of
10. Fusion power will soon provide a limitless supply of clean energy. ‘might one day’ it is not going to happen very soon